Witch Riding on a Goat

c. 1500/1501

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Albrecht Dürer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 11.4 x 7 cm (4 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3556

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 68, state i/ii

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Giuseppe Archinto [1783-1861], Milan (Lugt 547); Alfred Morrison [1821-1897], London and Fonthill (Lugt 151); Langmaak Collection, Hamburg (Lugt 2801a); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 3.

1969

  • Symbols in Transformation: Iconographic Themes at the Time of the Reformation, Princeton University Art Museum, 1969, no. 82, repro.

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 56.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 103, repro.

2000

  • The Fantastic in Renaissance Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

Bibliography

1932

  • Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 28.

Inscriptions

in plate, lower right: AD [artist's monogram, reversed D]; verso, left center, in graphite by a later hand: C.10518; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C [?] d [?] c [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B / 67; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 94 [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: u [?]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B 67; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 76 [upside down]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: 67; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B'' [?]

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q18338520

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